Goodbye lawn. Hello pond!

Like everything else in your garden - stunning and top quality , can't wait for more photos

 

I'll wear me camera out! Thanks for your nice comments, Kazzie, Folly, Jenny, Mowgli & Bilbo. I keep plodding on. Perhaps I do things differently because I only started properly gardening in 2008/9 and a lot of it is experimentation. I gotta hurry up because I retire at 66 in 3 years time and I'll definitely have no money after that. So whatever state it is in then, it'll have to stay that way. I'm going to change a whole pile of plants around this January.
Folly Mon, the car was built in Abingdon in April 1960.

 

I've Got a Spair Kiddney and a spair Lung for that car and a sit by the Pool of Corse

 

They still have to be beaded in and then stained.

 

That Walling is Beautefull

 

Painted with black colouring now. It makes a difference, I think.

I was just thinking, I'm taking piccies from the wrong side. I should go into my neighbour's garden and take pics of the pond through the ovals from his side! The only thing is that, the trellis is not painted black on that side.

 

Looks fantastic wherever it is viewed from kindred.
Jenny

 

Piccies of Arid Bed under glazed section of pergola next to pond.

Not the best of pics and I've got to finetune it i.e. put some of the taller plants to the back. Hopefully it'll come out right in the end.







EDIT: Just looked at the last pic. What a mess. I'd go and start fixing it now, except that it's blowing a hooley here, freezing cold and horizontal rain.

 

Weather is misty & miserable today so to cheer myself up I'm posting a picture of Thrift in the summertime.

 

Took some shots this evening around the pond just before it got dark.

 

Absolutely gorgeous!

 

Looks fantastic

 

Took a stroll around the garden this morning. (Well, a stroll only takes 5 minutes. )

 

Maple Bed. (Had been protected by neighbour's enormous Leylandi hedge on the other side of the wall but she cut it down. ) Notice big Phormium on the right. Just moved this from the back garden to the front. Had to use my old pal, Archimedes,' principles to shift it.

 

Delosperma Cooperii.



Red Hot Pokers in the Heath Area.



Water Lilies in the deep area.



Acacia Baileyana Purpurea. (The wind in the wintertime broke this little tree in half but it has recovered well.)



Dryopteris Filix-Mas. (Local fern.)



Yellow Buttons.



Dryopteris Affinis, very sturdy now.